Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls"
Samantha Fox "Naughty Girls & I wanna have some fun"
Jane Child "I don't wanna fall in love"
Lisa Stansfield "Been around the world"
Taylor Dayne "tell it to my heart"

vainandy said:

Michael Jackson

My Favorites:

Bobby Caldwell ("What You Won't Do For Love", "Just Can't Say Goodbye")

Hall and Oates

Bee Gees

Boz Scaggs ("Lowdown", "Jojo", "Ms Riddle")

Doobie Bros./Michael Mcdonald

AWB

Steely Dan/Donald Fagen ( Peg, Hey Nineteen,Time Out Of Mind, IGY(What A Beautiful World))

Elton John ("Bennie and The Jets", "I'm Still Standing")

Wild Cherry ("Play That Funky Music")

Tower Of Power ("So Very Hard To Go", "What Is Hip", "You're Still A Young Man", "Love's Been Gone So Long",etc.)

Leo Sayer ("You Make Me Feel Like Dancin'")

Gino Vanelli ("I Just Wanna Stop")

Peter Brown ( "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me", (C'mon and)"Dance With Me")

Rickie Lee Jones (" Chuck E's In Love")

James Taylor "How Sweet It Is(To Be Loved By You)"

Steve Miller Band ("Fly like an Eagle" (at least, in DC, it was played on R&B radio)"Abracadabra")

Robert Palmer ("Every Kinda People", "Sneakin Sally Through The Alley" Some Like It Hot (with Power Station, etc...))

Kraftwerk ("Trans Europe Express", "Numbers, Tour De France")

The Police ("Voices Inside My Head")(again at least, on the DC R&B stations)

Thomas Dolby("She Blinded Me With Science", "Hyperactive")

Tears For Fears ("Shout", "Everybody Wants To Rule The World",etc...)

Go West ("Eye To Eye", "the King Of Wishful Thinking")

Howard Jones ("Things Can Only Get Better")

Human League ("Human")

Culture Club (" I'll tumble 4Ya" "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me","It's A Miracle", "Mistake No.#3", etc.)

Kenny Loggins ("Love Will Follow")

David Bowie( "Fame", "Let's Dance")

Rod Stewart (" Do Ya Think I'm Sexy")

Rolling Stones ("Miss You", "Dance")

Wham/George Michael

Paul McCartney ( "Let Em In", "Silly Love Songs", "With A Little Luck", Coming Up", "Arrow Through Me",If you can count duets,"The Girl Is Mine", "Say Say Say" and even though I Hate it, "Ebony And Ivory")

Level 42 ("Starchild", "Love Games","Something About You", "Good Man In A Storm")

Kajagoogoo ("Too Shy")

Swing Out Sister ("Breakout", "Twilight World", "Surrender", etc.)

Simply Red ("Holding Back The Years", "It's Only Love", "Never Never Love")

Everything But The Girl ("Driving", "The Language Of Life" "Old Friends")


Herb Alpert ("Rise", "Making Love In The Rain", "Pillow", "Keep Your Eye On me")

Toto ("Georgie Porgie", "99")

Queen ("We Will Rock You", "Another One Bites The Dust")

Tom Tom Club/Talking Heads("Genius Of Love, " Burning Down The House")

DEVO ( "Whip It" and if you count collaborations, Jermaine Jackson's "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy")

And, technically, if it counts,: The Family ( "Screams Of Passion")
[This message was edited Wed Jul 14 7:56:39 2004 by paligap]

NWF said:

NWF is right. I remember hearing about The Clash's Magnificent 7 being played in black clubs and on black radio stations back in the day.

POOK said:

Pook, you are a funny monkey. I have to disagree with you on this one. Lenny never crossed over. His music appeals mostly to a white audience. When was the last time you saw a Kravitz video on BET?? I don't think I ever have.

Just made me think of white artists who appeared on Soul Train...

Elton John did, performing "Bennie And The Jets"

Boz Skaggs did, performing "Lowdown"

Captain & Tenille did, performing "Do That To Me One More Time"


...um, any else??...

psykosoul said:

"cars" crossed over to black radio? I don't remember that.

kisscamille said:

I think the tune "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" might be the only time...

SquarePeg said:

Actually He's Right--I forgot about that--I don't know if it hit nationally, but in the east, it did get R&B airplay...

Thomas Dolby She blinded me with science

Rod Steward Do ya think I'm sexy

Pat Benatar "Love is a battlefield" had a killer mix/long version.

that is all I can think of at this time... will now enjoy reading your choices.

I think there's a biggie missing that probably set the stage for many reverse crossover acts:


The Righteous Brothers

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

True!!

psykosoul said:[quote]My list:


Art of Noise: Moments in Love
I didn't know they were not black

Madonna: Take A Bow, Holiday
Didn't she start out Black charts then crossed over to white with Holiday


Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
Yes, I liked them too but I didn't know this actually crossed to RB

Supernova said:

OMG!!! I DID NOT KNOW FOXY WAS NOT Black!!!!

RipHer2Shreds said:

That did it! I am no longer a card carrying African american. I should've know all of this. They are right... I am an oreo.

prodigalfan said:

Not only are they not black, I think they're Jewish...


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[This message was edited Wed Jul 14 10:59:42 2004 by Byron]

boriquateddy said:

speaking of Lisa STansfield, was this a remake of a BArry White song?
I could swear I heard Barry do it before Lisa.

prodigalfan said:

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at, but if you're saying you didn't know Tag Team was White - they're not.

if U name Beastie & 3rd Bass then there's also Eminem, Everlast and.. Vanilla Ice

prodigalfan said:

How could I have forgotten Lisa Stansfield? Been Around the World was not a Barry White song, but she had a 90's hit, Never, Never Gonna Give You Up that was a Barry White remake.

Taylor Dayne didn't crossover with Tell It To My Heart, but she too remade a Barry White song.

And maybe I'm just being too picky with my definition of crossover. To me, it's an artist that had all-around, not just regional, appeal to R&B radio. Then again, I'm sort of a fanatic with R&B chart history. Pardon my knit picking.

Hot Stuff
Miss You } Rolling Stones
Fool to cry

Straight on for you - Heart

Whip It - Devo

Do ya think I'm sexy - Rod Stewart

I was made for loving you - Kiss

Dancing in the streets - Van Halen

Under Pressure - Queen/Bowie

Betty Davis Eye's - Kim Carnes

Girls On Film- Duran Duran

Cars - Gary Numan

Damn near anything from INXS

Damn near anything from Culture Club

Two Hearts Beat As One - U2

Radio Clash - The Clash

Rapture
Heart Of Glass / Blondie

Just off the top of my head.

SquarePeg said:

Yes it did.

blackguitaristz said:

vainandy said:[quote]

The group Kano was white?

B52's - Rock Lobster, Mesapotamia
I don't know if they charted on the r & b charts, but they were being played on Black radio. At least in Detroit...thanks to Mojo..

prodigalfan said:

It got quite a bit of play in Dallas back in the day. Usually during Friday night mix sets.

RipHer2Shreds said:

That's not nitpicking, that's what crossover success is based on. It's a nationwide thing, not a regional thing.

The fact that small regional success came for some songs from certain non-Soul/R&B artists (and vice versa) in different areas of the country is just partly indicative of the fact that radio was in a much better state during that time. It wasn't controlled by a couple of monopolies, and a lot of DJ's had more freedom to pick what they thought their communities would dig. But regional alone doesn't make for national crossover success, although sometimes it might start out that way.

Now that i've thought about this for a minute...

Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Devil With A Blue Dress
Soul Survivors - Expressway to your Heart
The Box Tops - The Letter
Three Dog Night - One (if not, maybe one of their other tunes)
The Young Rascals - People Got To Be Free
Laura Nyro - If she didn't chart as an artist she certainly did as a writer
(Stoned Soul Picnic, Eli's Coming)
Dan Hartman - Instant Replay, I Can Dream About You
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe

...I believe these charted R&B. I'm sure RipHer2Shreds can confirm or deny this.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

I'll quit with the chart quoting